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I understand Troy, especially his fear of a burnout. That's no joke. I think there are several interesting companies, besides Mozilla. I could see F-Secure making an offer. HIBP ticks a lot of boxes when it comes to business security, password reuse beeing a big issue there. Mikko and his team have a proofen track record and are well connected in the grey-hat area. Plus, they are in Finnland, near to Norway :)


If F-Secure is in Finnland, doesn't that mean they would have to delete user data on demand, undermining the service in doing so?


Undermine the service for who? The person who asked to have their data removed or the company who is interested in data about a specific person. If the answer is the latter then I think its fair that the person can ask to have their information removed. I think that Troy understands this distinction too and I also hope that HIBP remains that way.


I wonder if you just have passwords and don't link them to usernames, then that wouldn't be "your data" because it can't be connected back to you?


>I could see F-Secure making an offer

I'd be surprised if F-Secure made another acquisition so soon.




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